Pentatonic Three Sure-Fire Ways to Break out of That Old Minor-Pentatonic Deadlock Completely alter your use of the minor pentatonic scale using these examples in the style of Jimmy Page, Noel Gallagher, Robert Fripp, Peter Green and Eric Clapton Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary and Attain Superior Fretboard Awareness With 'Parallel Pentatonic Modal Vision' Learn PPMV – an insightful mapping of the pentatonic scale’s multifaceted natural order “Is the Music an Expression of Your State of Being, Or is it Something You're Just Taking On?” Vernon Reid Talks Jazz, Theory and the Spirit of the Blues The Living Colour guitarist gets real in this interview from the GP archives. Latest Pentatonic Here’s Some Blues You Can Really Use By Rob Laing, Jon Bishop, Chris Bird published 26 January 22 Improve your playing with this master class on everything you need to know for better blues. Pentatonic Substitutions: How and Where to Use Them By Tom Kolb published 10 May 21 Learn some more musically useful and colorful applications of a familiar scale. Beyond the Box: Five Phrases to Get You Out of the Pentatonic Rut By Guitar Player Staff published 16 April 21 Five ways to push the pentatonic box’s boundaries and even break them altogether. An Introduction to Pentatonic Substitutions By Tom Kolb published 7 April 21 In part one of this two-part lesson, learn some new and musically colorful applications of a familiar scale. How to Hack the Five Pentatonic Scale Shapes By Vinnie DeMasi published 11 June 20 Learn how to use the five pentatonic box shapes in real-time soloing over a groove or song. Spruce Up Your Pentatonic Scales with Note-Repositioning By Vinnie DeMasi published 17 April 20 Conceptualizing your scales as a collection of notes that relate to one another and not just as a set pattern to be played in position by rote can open up a number of musical doors Soar Along the Neck with the Minor Pentatonic Scale's Overlapping Patterns By Tom Kolb published 16 April 20 Learn the five pentatonic box patterns and how to connect them like interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces along the fretboard. Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors MOST READ1Win tickets to see Dweezil Zappa in San Francisco2David Cassidy on seeing Hendrix, learning from the session guitar greats, and jamming with Paul McCartney and John Lennon3Martin and Reverb unite for an exclusive non-cutaway Grand Performance acoustic4Matteo Mancuso pays homage to his hero, Paul Gilbert, with new track, Paul Position 5Joe Satriani’s custom Eddie Van Halen-flavored 3rd Power amp is now available as a plugin – with real amps on the way
Here’s Some Blues You Can Really Use By Rob Laing, Jon Bishop, Chris Bird published 26 January 22 Improve your playing with this master class on everything you need to know for better blues.
Pentatonic Substitutions: How and Where to Use Them By Tom Kolb published 10 May 21 Learn some more musically useful and colorful applications of a familiar scale.
Beyond the Box: Five Phrases to Get You Out of the Pentatonic Rut By Guitar Player Staff published 16 April 21 Five ways to push the pentatonic box’s boundaries and even break them altogether.
An Introduction to Pentatonic Substitutions By Tom Kolb published 7 April 21 In part one of this two-part lesson, learn some new and musically colorful applications of a familiar scale.
How to Hack the Five Pentatonic Scale Shapes By Vinnie DeMasi published 11 June 20 Learn how to use the five pentatonic box shapes in real-time soloing over a groove or song.
Spruce Up Your Pentatonic Scales with Note-Repositioning By Vinnie DeMasi published 17 April 20 Conceptualizing your scales as a collection of notes that relate to one another and not just as a set pattern to be played in position by rote can open up a number of musical doors
Soar Along the Neck with the Minor Pentatonic Scale's Overlapping Patterns By Tom Kolb published 16 April 20 Learn the five pentatonic box patterns and how to connect them like interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces along the fretboard.
